PORTLAND, Maine — Maine’s lobster catch has started dropping off and prices at the dock have been inching up slowly just as the state’s summer tourist season comes to a close.
Fishermen have been hauling fewer lobsters the past few weeks after several months of going gangbusters.
The lull in the harvest is coming about a month earlier than usual. But that’s not too surprising given that the lobster catch started coming on strong a month earlier than normal, said Carl Wilson, lobster biologist for the Department of Marine Resources.
‘‘If June was the new July and July was the new August, that would mean that August is the new September,’’ Wilson said. ‘‘And we generally have kind of a slowdown in September.’’
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